Friday is whoopie!

Horay, take that- NEWS.



ARREST BUSH - Yahoo! News (news.yahoo.com)

Helen Thomas Op-Ed: Bush admits he approved torture [politics] (seattlepi.nwsource.com)

Hitler plot survivor dies aged 90 [worldnews] (news.bbc.co.uk)

Second carrier group deployed to Gulf as U.S. approves plans for Iran "counterstrike" [worldnews] (worldtribune.com)

Six weeks ago, President Bush signed a secret finding authorizing a covert offensive against the Iranian regime that, according to those familiar with its contents, "unprecedented in its scope." [worldnews] (counterpunch.org)

Who else thinks the DC Madam was murdered because of what she knew? [politics] (huffingtonpost.com)

"The DC Madam Clients Included Cheney, McCain, Fred Thompson and Giuliani" - Wayne Madsen [politics] (youtube.com)

List of Suicides by whistle blowers or those that knew things [politics] (democraticunderground.com)

Iraqis are fuming at suggestions that Baghdad should pay part of war's costs by providing cheap fuel to the U.S. military [worldnews] (chicagotribune.com)

The Bush Administration's Imperialist Arrogance [worldnews] (politicalaffairs.net)

McCain accused of accepting improper donations from Rothschilds [worldnews] (guardian.co.uk)

High-Level US Officials Warn of Fake Terror Attacks [worldnews] (infowars.com)

As college courses in how to start small businesses are becoming as ubiquitous as Economics 101, gone is the conventional wisdom that such skills cannot be learned in class. [business] (nytimes.com)

First Solar, the “Google of Solar Energy,” Is Coming to America [environment] (solveclimate.com)

Alternative energy alternatives: Race to algae-based biodiesel heats up [environment] (news.com)

Muslim immigration to Europe – colossal failure [worldnews] (worldivided.com)

Nuclear Proliferation? Don't Worry So Much. Preventing the Spread of Nukes has Caused More Harm than Good [worldnews] (theseminal.com)

Can Desert Solar Supply Europe's Energy? [science] (businessweek.com)

New Solar Company Exits Stealth Mode with Promise to Compete with Coal! [science] (ecogeek.org)

World Now Considers US to be a Rogue State [worldnews] (abc.net.au)

"People are not willing to modify their lifestyle in order to live on what they earn" [business] (allfinancialmatters.com)

EFF: HOWTO keep your laptop from being searched at the border (it's hard) [technology] (eff.org)

In the first phase, about 4,500 cameras trained on schools, public housing, traffic and government buildings will feed into a central office at the D.C. Homeland Security [WTF] (washingtonpost.com)

Remember that Pentagon millimeter-wave "pain ray"? Yeah, it kills things, too [science] (frontpagemagazine.com)

Mike Tyson's Abandoned Mansion - NON LINKJACKED, Good Writeup [offbeat] (illicitohio.illicitohio.com)

Online profiles and "faves lists" have turned us into a bunch of unwitting snobs [geek] (salon.com)

Thursday is an undertow

News that creates and undertow to pull you in.



High-Level Officials Warn of Staged Provocation to Start Iran War [politics] (georgewashington2.blogspot.com)

Remember how Hillary Clinton mentioned last week the US could "totally obliterate" Iran if it attacked Israel? Well, Iran has responded, and they are PISSED. [politics] (news.bbc.co.uk)

"With Iran...shifting its crude trading to the euro and the yen... treasury managers feel that this could well be the first challenge to the US dollar’s dominance as currency of global trade. " [business] (economictimes.indiatimes.com)

Hillary, foot in mouth: “Rich people, god bless us. We deserve all the opportunities to make sure our country and our blessings continue to the next generation.” [politics] (tpzoo.wordpress.com)

Did the US just bomb Somalia? [politics] (news.bbc.co.uk)

NBC's Brian Williams: 2 Minutes for Hannah Montana, 80 Seconds for Landmark Supreme Court Ruling Likely to Disenfranchise Millions of American Voters... [politics] (bradblog.com)

Video: Obama's New Ad Rejects Clinton/McCain Gas Tax Holiday [politics] (redgreenandblue.org)

Tortured Logic: Scalia Says ‘Torture’ Is Not Unconstitutional Because It Is Not ‘Punishment’ [politics] (pensitoreview.com)

The government puts everybody's earnings on the web. Five lessons. [worldnews] (publicani.com)

Must Read: "War is a Racket", By the Most Highly-Decorated Soldier of All Time [worldnews] (wanttoknow.info)

The real US deficit with China – knowledge [worldnews] (csmonitor.com)

The world is beginning to accept that Iran harbors peaceful nuclear ambitions. What will it take to get the U.S. on board? [worldnews] (theseminal.com)

A Price Drop for Solar Panels The silicon shortage that has kept solar electricity expensive is ending. [environment] (technologyreview.com)

Joseph J. Andrew: On My Switch From Clinton to Obama [politics] (huffingtonpost.com)

Hillary vs the Coffee Maker is now the #1 vid on YouTube - Hillary is in trouble [politics] (americablog.com)

Memristors will enable very small nanoscale devices to be made without generating all the excess heat that scaling down transistors is causing today. [science] (eetimes.com)

Starbucks is latest victim in economic downturn. Suddenly, no one needs $4 coffees. (stockmarketcrash08.com)

Good Luck Trading In Your SUV [business] (ridelust.com)

Free Hawaii! [worldnews] (msnbc.msn.com)

“Disney Hypocrisy” In America: Corporate Outraged Over Risqué Hannah Montana Pics. In China: Racy Disney Ads Featuring Underage Girls On Their Billboards A-OK. [business] (consumerist.com)

America's Most Overrated Product: the Bachelor's Degree (chronicle.com)

The McCain Health Plan: Millions Lose Coverage, Health Costs Worsen, and Insurance and Drug Industries Win [politics] (huffingtonpost.com)

Google diving into 3D mapping of oceans (news.com)

Physics: Quantum all the way [science] (nature.com)

Economist's View: "The Coming Collapse of the Middle Class" (economistsview.typepad.com)

What Do Off Grid Homes Look Like? Here are 5 Examples [environment] (treehugger.com)

In Obama's new ad attacking the gas tax "holiday", he states specific energy policy positions. Nice. [politics] (salon.com)

The Curse of the Clintons: The truth is they have become a curse for Democrats and not an asset. [politics] (alternet.org)

More On The Gas Tax Holiday Scam [politics] (belowthebeltway.com)

Amazing Collection of Physics Video Lectures (Quantum Physics/Mechanics, Field Theory, Applied Group Theory, General Relativity. Cosmology, and others) [science] (freescienceonline.blogspot.com)

"Women Are Being Beheaded for Taking Their Veil Off": Honor Killings On Rise in Iraq [worldnews] (alternet.org)

Monsanto's Harvest of Fear [politics] (vanityfair.com)

Dyncorp used armored vehicle to transport prostitutes in Iraq [worldnews] (alternet.org)

Indian baby dropping ritual [WTF] (reuters.com)

Things I Learned From 5 Months Of Meditation [offbeat] (freshcreation.com)

Helen Thomas with Her Flowers [pic] (flickr.com)

Wednesday is News?

News? You call that shit news? Fucking media and your bullshit excuse for news. Trying to feed us garbage so we'll forget about REAL mother fuckin issues. IM PIST. because we really care about the back of a 15 year old kid's star. you see more fucking skin in a bathingsuit! its NOT NEWS.


ABC, CBS and NBC agree. Not news: Discovery of hidden ties between media military analysts and the Pentagon. News: Vanity Fair photo of Miley Cyrus (mediamatters.org)

Obama's Press Conference on Wright: quotes and video [politics] (huffingtonpost.com)

John McCain claims he is healthy but he gets tax-free pension because he is 100% disabled [politics] (latimes.com)

Iran Ends Oil Transactions In U.S. Dollars, OPEC's Second-Largest Producer Now Pegs Petroleum To Euros And Yen [worldnews] (cbsnews.com)

The McCain gas tax plan is a giveaway to oil companies, disguised as a gift to consumers [politics] (krugman.blogs.nytimes.com)

Cheney asserts total and complete immunity from oversight [politics] (washingtonpost.com)

This year, about a quarter of U.S. corn will go to feeding ethanol plants instead of poultry or livestock [environment] (washingtonpost.com)

So this is how the White house managed to lose email... [technology] (arstechnica.com)+

How to Sabotage a Presidential Campaign by Reverend Wright (washingtonpost.com)

Nearly 7 yrs after 9/11, why, absent any evidence of serious domestic terror threat, is America's War on Terror so enormous and still expanding? [worldnews] (consortiumnews.com)

Two big solar power cost breakthroughs. Clever system tweaks for 7 cents per kwh selling in 2009 [pic]. Revolutionary protein system for future costs 100 times less [science] (nextbigfuture.com)

Harnessing the Saharan Sun: Is Desert Solar Power the Solution to Europe's Energy Crisis? [science] (spiegel.de)

You Got More Procreative Power: Scientists discover how to store, grow human eggs [science] (abc.net.au)

He said if a female chimpanzee was inseminated with human sperm the two species would be closely enough related that a hybrid could be born [science] (thescotsman.scotsman.com)

Has U.S. Science Lost Its Competitive Edge? [science] (sciencenow.sciencemag.org)

Tenant who lived in incest house for 12 years heard knocking from sex dungeon 'but did nothing' News This is London [WTF] (thisislondon.co.uk)

London: Brown says message must be sent on cannabis due to "lethal quality ". WTF? [worldnews] (uk.news.yahoo.com)

Buy your own "Climate Change Protection Complex" [WTF] (treehugger.com)

Former terrorists to explain 'why we want to kill you' [WTF] (9news.com)

The First Known False Flag Trick: Ancient Rome [worldnews] (whatreallyhappened.com)

Oinking Good Fun [pics] [WTF] (wackyarchives.com)